This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors, and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more pathetic than usual because there’s a presidential election in the offing.

Has one of our two major parties ever had a weaker field of presidential candidates in a year when its prospects for victory seemed so great? My answer, after hemming and hawing a bit, was yes: the Democratic party in 1932. 

Marriage is a work in progress.

Both the late Jerry Falwell and his Baptist forebears reminded America of its spiritual and philosophical diversity.

Can political art fully satisfy the claims of truth and beauty? Or is it fatally compromised by the passionate desire to persuade? Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal offers a report from the front lines of the increasing politicization of art in twenty-first century America, and the growing inclination...

The effort to ban Bisphenol A, a polycarbonate plastic, as harmful to human beings is misguided.

American speech, like English speech, used to sparkle.

Five reasons people might not accept the catastrophic modeling exercises and horror stories that have been presented as actual climate change data.